Chapter 66 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 66

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 66.25

त्वं हि वायुसुतो वत्स प्लवने चापि तत्समः॥ वयमद्य गतप्राणा भवानस्मासु साम्प्रतम्। दाक्ष्यविक्रमसम्पन्नः कपिराज इवापरः॥

tvaṃ hi vāyusuto vatsa plavane cāpi tatsamaḥ|| vayamadya gataprāṇā bhavānasmāsu sāmpratam| dākṣyavikramasampannaḥ kapirāja ivāparaḥ||

English Meaning

The are the son of the Wind, my child-equal to him in power of leaping. Now we are without our lives. And you, endowed with dexterity and vigour, and like another I of the monkeys,+ are before us. *Sugriva.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)